Poetry for the Inner Ear

LITERARY FACTS This article includes some of my favorite events in the literary history. We can learn a lot from these facts. They at times stir us to the quick and convince us about the values of the biographical details of the author. Both Sartre and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize. This literary fact has always been my favorite. Samuel Beckett refused to attend the Nobel prize ceremony. Samuel Beckett was obsessed by a desire to create what he called "a literature of the unword." Issa's mother died when he was three years old. e.e.cummings was inspired to write Santa Clause: A Morality after uniting with his daughter, Nancy. French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) produced his best works while still in his late teens. He gave up creative writing before he reached 21. Ikkyu (b. 1394), famous monk poet, was the illegitimate son of Emperor Go-Komatsu. Katherine Mansfield who married Middleton Murry in 1918 died of tuberculosis in January 1923, aged on...

LITERARY FACTS                                            1. Saul Bellow is the only American author to win three National Book Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize (1976). 2. Saul Bellow was married five times. 3. Robert Frost died in Boston on January 29, 1963. 4. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was winner of three Pulitzer Prizes. 5. Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1953) for his masterpiece The Old Man And The Sea, and Nobel Prize for literature in 1954, committed suicide in July 2, 1961. 6. William Faulkner (1897-1962), one of the greatest American novelists, was rejected by U. S. Army for being underweight and too short ( 5 feet 5 inches). 7. Samuel Becket’s poem WHOROSCOPE (1930) has seventeen footnotes. 8. When Becket...